Ixtapa?

[Al]

I ended up wearing a 3 mil farmer john, a shorty skin, hood and gloves and was fine. The divemasters however had layer after layer after layer and would only make one dive because of the cold! They were skeptical about my setup until I told them I was icediving a few weeks ago! ;D

The Pacific outside of Zihuatanejo is nothing like the Gulf however, not much color or great vis but lots of life. The plankton was pretty thick so the vis was about 30-50' . Saw some fish bigger than me and dozens of rays, lots of red starfish, eel’s, urchins, never ending schools of fish etc. I did a night dive with my new DiveRite HID and it was awesome. The light lit up the whole ocean! I saw my first cute little octopus, hermit crab and spider crab(?) too.

My favorite part of the vacation was freediving with a big school of fish just off of the beach. I could swim around them and get them to ball up in a swirl as if I was going to eat them!

(I'm vegetarian however!)

Dizzy but a blast.